he trail to see your wife you might have died," said one of the
old men,--"or on the way coming home. How could we know? If you die
and we have to fight--we have to fight without you. Before you were
born we fought without you."

"I was not to see a wife!" protested Ka-yemo. "I can stay away like
other men. Some one has talked crooked! I was on the mesa talking with
the guardians who make the arrow heads. To the far away ones I talked.
The women send word to them that they are afraid. A ghost is at Pu-ye.
All the women but the Twilight Woman are much frightened. They want
men."

"Good!" said the governor. "The scouts are already on the trail. If
men are needed, each man is ready and each spear is waiting. To the
Po-Ahtun-ho has been shown a vision of the enemy--it was not a time to
wait for council."

Ka-yemo's handsome face was still sulky. The vision of Tahn-te might
have waited. He had come down with a fine new story of a ghost seen in
the ruins of Pu-ye, and it was ignored because Tahn-te the Po-Athun-ho
had found a vision!

Tahn-te entered not at all into the discussion of the confiscated
rights of Ka-yemo. Even of the ghost frightening the women he asked no
question. Many things of war were talked of if the Navahu should come
to steal women or corn, and the dusk of the twilight crept after the
vanished sun when Tahn-te turned at last to the war chief.

"Ka-yemo, with the men of iron you have spoken much and often," he
said quietly. "Do you know who told them first that in Povi-whah was
held the secret of the yellow metal for which they search?"

The tongue of Ka-yemo became stiff as all sat silent waiting for his
answer.

"The padre asked me,"--he said at last,--"the padre always makes
people speak--I told the padre that which I had heard."

There was a slight stir among the men, but Tahn-te quieted them with a
glance.

"The priest of the iron men has also been told one other thing," he
continued--"and it is well for you all, brothers, that you hear this
thing. Oh-we-tahnh, the outcast of Ni-am-be, was a strong medicine
man. He used magic in a dark way for evil. His power was taken from
him. He was told by the council to forget the secret of the sun
symbol. Brothers, he has not forgotten! He has come to the camp of the
men of iron. He eats their food:--last night he slept by their
walls."

"Our brothers of Ni-am-be will not be glad with us if we let this be,"
stated one man. "The evil magic must be o